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Once
upon a time, an old woman and her husband lived alone in a little old
house. The couple had no children, and being lonely, the woman decided
to make a boy of gingerbread. She carefully mixed the batter, rolled
out the dough, and cut out out a very nice gingerbread man. She added
sugar icing for his hair, mouth, and clothes, and she used candy chips
for buttons and eyes. What a fine looking gingerbread man he was! The
old woman put him in the oven to bake. After he was fully done, she
slowly opened the oven door. Up jumped the gingerbread man, and he ran
out the door saying,

"Run, run, as fast as
you can!
You can't catch me! I'm the Gingerbread Man!"

The old woman and the old
man ran after him, but they could not catch him.